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词根:scathing
adj.scathing 严厉的;损伤的
v.scathing 损伤;伤害(scathe的ing形式)
Adverb
1. in a scathing and unsparing manner;
"she criticized him scathingly"
The first known use of scathing was in 1794
scatterverb
to cause to separate widely
wind scattered the dry leaves
to place or leave here and there
scattered their toys all over the house
to sow widely and without pattern
to separate and go in different directions
the crowd scattered
to occur or fall without pattern
lakes scattered everywhere in the hills
scatterbrainnoun
a silly careless person incapable of concentration
scatterverb
to cause to separate widely
wind scattered the dry leaves
to place or leave here and there
scattered their toys all over the house
to sow widely and without pattern
to separate and go in different directions
the crowd scattered
to occur or fall without pattern
lakes scattered everywhere in the hills
scathingadjective
painfully harsh
a scathing look
1 The activist group La Resistencia, which opposes immigrant detention and deportation and has scathingly criticized conditions at the Tacoma facility, raised questions about a possible suicide.
2 The critic Hilton Als scathingly depicted this transformation as a surrender: “By 1968, Baldwin found impersonating a black writer more seductive than being an artist.”
3 Absolutely captivating and scathingly frank, it’s a story of motherhood stripped of every ribbon of sentimentality.
4 Powered by some ferocious percussionists who play onstage with the dancers, it's an energetic piece — one that could probe its subject matter more trenchantly and scathingly to be 100-percent satisfying.
5 “Knackers profit from a plague,” I said scathingly, and left.
6 Their widely followed posts — some scathingly critical of the Russian government — often provide more details about army movements than the Russian authorities do.
7 All of which is very close to the character Allen has repeatedly played on-screen, sometimes lovingly and sometimes scathingly.
8 A federal judge wrote scathingly that the effort to penalize the plaintiff was "wildly inappropriate" because the man had had a reasonable case.
9 Hawkins invests Lincoln with a scathingly funny pride of slickness, in his virtuosic manner of moving the three monte cards around a piece of cardboard mounted on milk crates.
10 Much of the correspondence offered support and sympathy for those of us who had returned, but there was also an abundance of scathingly critical letters.
11 With some skillful surgery, “White Girl in Danger” can become as scathingly funny, with a sharpened point, as it seeks to be.
12 a scathing review of the book
13 The scathingly satirical play presented three interracial couples who participate in a retreat that practices “antebellum sexual performance therapy.”
14 To read her was to discover a scathingly witty and bossy best friend, one whose willingness to air her failings and insecurities encouraged us to laugh at our own.
15 He was scathingly critical of the small hole that had been gouged into the side of the ditch, roundly cursing any creature who dared to complain of difficult obstacles.
16 Presented in a new translation by David Greig that brings out the feral poetry in Strindberg’s prose, this portrait of a fatal sexual triangle is both coldly objective and scathingly passionate.
17 Gruenberg, 71, has faced mounting pressure following a scathing report detailed allegations of harassment and discrimination at the bank regulator during his tenure.
18 He has scathingly criticized the military brass for blunders in Ukraine, saying Wagner was more efficient than regular troops.
19 We played an audio clip of one of Peanut's speeches which had been cut for broadcast, removing umpteen scathingly delivered expletives.
20 Coleman, of course, was very much her literary descendant, a poet and essayist who also wrote scathingly about race and class.
2 严厉地
smart strictly sharply keenly cruelly starkly roundly sternly stringently dourly humorlessly unsparingly austerely heavily roughly severely harshly soundly
3 尖刻地
4 严厉
fulminous hard blue firm smart tough exact severe sharp crucial strict harsh bitter rigid imperative stern grim exacting pungent grueling astringent dour inclement unsparing strictly sharply keenly cruelly starkly roundly sternly stringently dourly humorlessly unsparingly austerely hardness rigor astringency stringency starkness inclemency humorlessness austereness severeness hard as iron stiff stringent uncompromising repressive austere heavy-handed scorching uncharitable heavily roughly severely harshly soundly severity austerity toughness harshness asperity grimness sternness